I admit I am curious to see how this will ultimately play out. Rick Dyer is at it again. In 2008 Dyer claimed to have found a dead bigfoot. He claimed that scientific analysis was coming, he had the body for investigation, he held a press conference promising evidence.

It was soon discovered that the bigfoot body was simply a rubber suit – the whole thing was a crude hoax, surprising only the most gullible bigfoot believers.

Amazingly, Dyer is now at it again. He claims to have shot and killed a bigfoot, that he has the body, that the BBC has footage of the whole thing, and that a team of scientists have thoroughly examined the body.

If his claims are true, then Dyer has the smoking gun evidence that bigfoot is real. Of course, at this point no nerd can resist quoting that Klingon saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Does Dyer honestly expect anyone to believe that a proven bigfoot hoaxer really caught bigfoot this time? Where so many have failed before, a hoaxer alone has struck gold.

Again we see the same pattern – the promise of stunning evidence, but only tidbits of unconvincing evidence so far. Dyer is showing only a short grainy video he took with his cellphone, and a couple of closeup photos of a furry face and back. You can see these images here as part of this local news interview.

In the interview Dyer is full of the expected excuses. He has promised a press conference, but he is having difficulty organizing everyone’s schedule. You see, if you are the scientist to have performed the first anatomical analysis of a bigfoot, you have to schedule the press conference around your daughter’s soccer game.

He promises that the BBC has stunning video – but they are not going to show it, or even acknowledge it, until their movie comes out.

The scientists are not talking because they all signed non-disclosure agreements.

He says he has the body back now, the scientific analysis being complete, and it is standing in the next room – but his video camera does not reach. I guess he didn’t consider that anyone might want to see it during the video interview.

He has shown pictures where you can partly see the bigfoot through the glass case in which he keeps it, and it looks suspiciously like resin. Well, you see, he had to cover the hands and feet with resin to preserve them, even though the body has allegedly been preserved through taxidermy.

At least the local news team brought up Dyer’s previous hoax in the otherwise softball interview (OK – they seemed to be subtly mocking him, rather than doing a serious hardball interview). Dyer had an explanation for that too.

In 2008 he did find a real dead bigfoot in the woods. He announced it to the world. But then – the government showed up and took away the body. (They must have taken it to Area 52 for examination – that’s right next door to the area they use to cover up their UFO investigations.)

Dyer then made the rubber suit hoax because he was already in too deep. He had no choice. He couldn’t just tell everyone that the government took bigfoot’s body – although, now, I guess, he can.

The real story is that the government is planning on building a secret army of bigfeet. Either that or supersoldier bigfoot-human hybrids. They needed Dyer’s specimen, and they had to keep it secret from the world. That is why they secretly killed Dyer and replaced him with a look-a-like whose job it is to discredit Dyer and bigfoot hunting in general.

Now it all makes sense – this second hoax is just a further false flag operation to convince the public that bigfoot is all a big joke. We won’t suspect a thing, until the human-bigfoot hybrids take over the world.

The question remains – how is this all going to play out. Assuming that Dyer isn’t the luckiest jackass in the world who stumbled upon bigfoot twice, what is his master plan? How long does he think he can keep a doubting public at bay with promises of evidence but only lame excuses and delays? What’s going to happen when he completes his PT Barnum sideshow tour? Perhaps it will never end – he will just feed the world some BS story about some lame cover-up, and continue to show his fake bigfoot at small town carnivals.

The only mystery that remains is which lame excuse will Dyer use as his final escape hatch from the situation he has created for himself.

22 Responses to “Bigfoot Hoax – How Far Will It Go?”

Fantastical claims…. The picture of the head looks more like Gimli from LOTR. I always love that the only video “evidence” is from a grainy cell phone or poorly focused video cameras. Dyer will just keep moving the goal post.

I watched the video and the journalists seem to be making fun of him/laughing at him. He is obviously full of nonsense with his 120 “experts”, his BBC team and his refusal to let the journalists talk to the experts or to show any of the video. I think that the journalists did a pretty good job of calling him on his nonsense, while keeping the interview going.

By the way, I found a real video of bigfoot – not grainy and he is clearly visible, if you can pay attention well enough:

steve12-That’s pretty funny,but I was having similar thoughts as I read this.
The bar for what is considered a plausible claim,and or source for reliable evidence has sunk so low for a certain demographic that it is mind boggling.
I use to be able to counter obvious nonsense very easily by sending people to Snopes for example,but lately those spurious news sources that we are all too familiar with have developed an ‘immunity’ much as a virus does by deploying another rumor that Snopes is run and funded by left-wingers funded by George Soros,so therefore everything they say cannot be trusted,and essentially,ANY source that doesn’t agree with their unfounded rumor is by default wrong and part of the overall effort to silence their off-the-wall nutbaggery.
So frustrating!

I don’t have much to add, other than it is disturbing that the first instinct of some hucksters is to kill this creature (or being, if we are willing to entertain the idea of other sentient creatures besides ourselves).

Let’s just say for a second that this were real: why shoot something like this? Why not use a tranquilizer or try to capture it alive? This would be a fantastic discovery: actual proof of a bipedal hominid other than ourselves. And of course, being a Real American^TM, he murders it–I mean, stands his ground. If something like this ever turns out to be real, it will be real telling to see how many people choose to celebrate the discovery versus how many people choose to lament the sadness of once again driving a species to extinction.

Firstly there is Tom Biscardi, a man who has spent decades making documentaries about the subject. He is quite a highly strung fellow and somewhat self-important. Many of the funniest moments revolve around him and he has some very amusing dialogue throughout.

Secondly there is Dallas and Wayne who are a couple of elderly hillbillies. They are much more sympathetic characters than Biscardi and it’s hard not to feel a little sorry for them in their dead-end obsession. They drive out into the woods to play cassettes and make animal noises in an attempt to lure in the beast. The walls of their home are full of photographs of evidence but truthfully they are photographs of nothing. Their obsession is given a little context in that a work injury left Dallas unable to continue in his job leaving him trying to find meaning for is life in the hunt for Bigfoot; it’s quite sad, although he does seem a undeniably little mentally unstable especially when he claims he has an affinity with Bigfoot because he has animal DNA as a result of a sheep bone being implanted in his head in order to seal a wound.

Lastly, there is Rick Dyer who is a self-styled ‘Bigfoot Tracker’. He really seems to be a somewhat dangerous man and appears to engage in games with Matthews to try and freak him out in the middle of the night. The fact that he spends most of his time carrying a loaded rifle doesn’t exactly help matters. To make the situation worse they encounter a young homeless man in the woods who may or may not be secretly in cahoots with Dyer. But even if not, this guy gives off the impression of someone to keep well away from. One night he pitches up at the camp site with his dog horribly gashed at the neck. His ambivalence on the matter made you wonder if he was the one who actually did it. Anyway, this strand of the film is the only part that actually ends with any conclusion. Surprisingly, it’s a pretty scary one. Although it does push the documentary onto the ‘is-it-a-mockumentary?’ side of the fence.”

You’re right – I think this has changed in the US in my lifetime (I’m 40). The people pushing identity politics have perfected their craft to the point where everything is Culture War nonsense, and truth and reality simply don’t exist unless they conform to some POV.

There has been a huge uptick in credulous “paranormal” TV “documentaries” in recent times, mostly (much to my dismay) on the History Channel and other supposed educational cable channels. Clearly this fellow wants his own “Reality” TV show. Let him line up with UFO-Balloon guy and the other fakes.

Is there a physiological basis for being gullible? When I was a kid, every shadow that moved across my window at night was a Yeti. I knew better, but regardless, my six-year-old brain would not rule out that possibility. Is that sort of irrational fear just a consequence of insufficient learning and world experience, or is there something physically different about a young brain that allows for such thoughts? My guess is most of us would agree that adult bigfoot believers are “different”, but are they really different in a measurable way?

Human beings are hyperactive pattern-seeking, agent detecting, story telling creatures. It presumably increased the chances of survival in the forests and jungles of our ancestors. In our modern society, it’s probably a bit too hyperactive for our own good. But some of us haven’t learned to recognise and compensate for our less than perfect instinctual responses.

We live about 2 miles upriver (Klamath) from Weitchpec, near the place where the iconic video was taken of “Bigfoot” stomping through the woods. Blurry, unsteady, a home video….supposedly taken near Fish Lake. All this country is unbelievably isolated, around the junction of the Klamath and the Trinity, in far northern California.

The locals claim that the “Bigoot” in question was Billy Pearson, the Yurok Indian who runs the local store, and that the whole thing was an elaborate joke. I’ve known Billy Pearson all my life. He’s well into his 80’s now, but still strong and hardy.

Billy refuses to discuss the question. Which is evidence in itself maybe.

The old guys in the neighborhood have their own opinions. They say, if after a lifetime of tracking and leading mules and logging through all this country I have never seen evidence of this creature, it isn’t there. Of course they are all consummate hunters and trackers. They’re laughing at us, you guys.